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The strangest - and stupidest - items confiscated at airports

Drugs are obviously the biggest problem for airport security, while criminals are adept at conjuring up inventive ways to go undetected. Smugglers have attempted to import narcotics in plaster casts and wrapped up as Christmas presents, while a woman was arrested at Gatwick Airport in 2003 after officials found a bag of hashish stuffed into the battery compartment of her vibrator. She had assumed that staff would be too embarrassed to root through her sex toy.